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1 MEANING FORM USE Chapter 14. Spelling Contents Spelling and pronunciation... 2 Principles of spelling... 3 Spelling problems... 3 Spell checkers... 5 Other issues in spelling... 6 Capital letters... 6 Spelling and morphology... 7 After reading about spelling... 7 Links for activities and resources Solution Before reading this chapter Web activity 1 1. What do you already know about spelling and the formation of words? 2. Here are some rules of thumb regarding spelling do you know others? a. Always i before e except after c : achieve receive. b. Full and all are spelled with ll but when these elements are used as parts of longer words, they lose one l: beautiful, wonderful, almost and always. c. When lose means miste (I don t want to lose my dog), it has lost one o compared to the adjective loose (the dog is loose). d. Choose means vælge, so you must have two o s to choose among. 3. What is the connection between spelling and pronunciation and why are so many spelling problems connected to pronunciation? 4. What do you know about spell checkers and why you cannot always trust them? 5. Which morphological spelling rules do you know concerning the doubling of consonants, the suffixes (e)s and -(e)d and the inflection of words ending in -y, -fe, and -o? 6. Capital letters are used in proper nouns like in Danish e.g. Karen and Denmark. In which lexical areas do we use more capital letters in English than in Danish? Chapter 14. spelling 1

2 7. What do you know about the problems concerning whether we should spell words in one words or two? What do we tend to do in Danish and what about English? 8. What do you know about how we can form new words by using prefixes (in-, ex- etc.)? 9. What do you know about suffixes (-ment, -ic etc.) and their connection to word classes? 10. What do you know about differences in British and American spelling? 11. How were you taught spelling at school? What was good/bad and why? 12. How do you best learn spelling? 13. Can you think of some good ways of teaching spelling? Spelling and pronunciation Web activity 2 Read these poems that are also concerned with spelling and pronunciation. Discuss them from a teacher s perspective, e.g. could you use them at school? Text 2-A When the English Tongue we Speak 1 When the English tongue we speak Why is break not rhymed with weak? Won t you tell me why it s true We say sew, but also few? And the maker of a verse Cannot rhyme his horse with worse? Beard is not the same as heard, Cord is different from word, Cow is cow, low is low, Shoe is never rhymed with foe. Think of hose and dose and lose, And think of goose and yet of choose, Think of comb and tomb and bomb, Doll and roll and home and some. And since pay is rhymed with say, Why not paid with said, I pray? Think of blood and food and good; Mould is not pronounced like could. Why is done, but gone and lone - Is there any reason known? To sum it up, it seems to me That sounds and letters don t agree. You can listen to the poem here: Text 2-B Read the lyrics to the poem The Chaos 2 by G. Nolst Trenite a.k.a. Charivarius here: You can listen to the entire poem here: Chapter 14. spelling 2

3 Principles of spelling Web activity 3 1. Follow this link and find a joke called Ze Drem - An anonymous EU announcement passed on to us by Brian Fawcett of Cambridge, England on spelling. Which of the four principles does it apply, violate and make fun of? 2. How does the spelling make fun of Euro-English? Spelling problems Web activity 4. Here are some tasks that might help audio-visual problems. Try them and discuss them from a teacher s perspective. Do you have other ideas to help audio-visual problems? 1. Identify and correct the mistakes concerning homophones in the text The Sting in the Tale : the_tail/the_sting_in_the_tail.pdf (the solution is found at the end of this chapter). 2. Here is a memory game on homophones or near-homophones 3. a. Cut out the slips and play the game by taking turns turning two cards. Say the words out loud to prove they are real homophones, if they are not, make sure you say them distinctly differently. Who will win most tricks? b. Comment on this from a teacher s perspective. Could it be a good idea only to work on the real homophones first or ask the pupils to sort the words into two piles? a. Real homophones b. Other words that are mixed up Could it be a good idea to ask the pupils to write sentences with those they find most difficult? Could it be a good idea to ask the pupils to keep their own check list regarding homophones or other words they mix up? ALOUD ALLOWED BACK BAG BUY DEAR DEER PEACE PIECE BY SO SOW BE BEE THEIR THERE TO TOO OF OFF WERE WHERE WHICH WITCH WHOLE HOLE WITH WHIT BEEN BIN FEED FEET HE S HIS ITS Chapter 14. spelling 3

4 3. For each word, write another word that sounds the same but is spelled differently. Example: plain - plane a. ate h. whole b. board i. steak c. break j. boarder d. sail k. right e. duel l. waist f. led m. coarse g. sea You can find a list of more homophones here: 4. Follow this link to a game of dominoes with homophones: co.uk/english/docs/homophone_dominoes.doc 5. Here are some exercises on silent letters 1. Mark all the silent letters in each of the following sentences: 4 a. They were singing a psalm to honour the world-famous psychologist as he was laid to rest in the tomb. b. The psychiatrist was attacked with a knife in the knee as he was walking in the field. c. He whistled as he fastened his sword and tied his belt. d. My family ought to have left me at least half the Christmas cake on Wednesday. 2. Silent letters Many words contain letter that are not pronounced. Read aloud the words below and identify the letter in each word that is not pronounced: a. raspberry j. listen s. talk b. climb k. knife t. handsome c. choir l. hour u. sign d. knee m. two v. psychology e. island n. Christmas w. every f. half o. answer x. business g. column p. vegetable y. tomb h. know q. comb z. subtle i. handkerchief r. honest æ. calm 3. Make three lists and sort the words according to their silent letters: w, k and g. wrote, knowledge, sign, wren, kneel, knot, wrong, wrath, gnat, gnarl, wrench, knave, knee and wry. 6. Can you explain why the following words do not get double consonants? a. hope hoping b. suffer suffering c. attack attacking d. ruin ruining 7. Here are some links to additional texts related to pronunciation and spelling. Discuss whether you could use them with pupils: The tongue twister Whether the weather be fine : toungetwistersweather.html Chapter 14. spelling 4

5 Jokes and puns: and here is a joke on homophones: The poem Streemin 5 : Spell checkers Web activity Rewrite some of the stanzas from the poem Candidate for a Pullet Surprise (also sometimes called Owed to the spell checker ) so that the spelling is correct. Here is a link for the text: 2. What can you learn about spelling and the limitations of spell checkers from this task? 3. What is the pun on the title? 4. Discuss the task from a teacher s perspective could you use it with pupils? Web activity 6. Here is a rewritten excerpt on spell checkers from the grammar Stifinderen 6. Comment on this from a teacher s perspective: Hvad er stavekontrollen? Stavekontrollen er som en lille ordbog, men den aner ikke noget om, hvad ord betyder eller hvad du mener. Det, den gør, er alene at sætte røde streger under de bogstavsammensætninger, den ikke kender. 1. Stavekontrollen reagerer, hvis du har skrevet et ord, som ikke findes. Heer is a boy hwo is very gut at gramar. Faktisk er der ikke tre, men fire stavefejl i eksemplet her, da meningen må være: Here is a boy who is very good at grammar. Men ordet gut findes på engelsk det giver bare ingen mening i denne sætning. Stavekontrollen reagerer også, hvis du kommer til at skrive samme ord to gange efter hinanden: Here is a boy boy. Men nogle gange er det jo meningen, at der skal være to ens ord efter hinanden: He said that that would not be possible. He had had a great holiday in Spain. Stavekontrollen kan ikke stave for dig: Når du har skrevet en tekst, vil dit skriveprogram nogle gange sætte røde streger under noget. Chapter 14. spelling 5

7 3. Han er aldrig hjemme om søndagen og mandagen. 4. I middelalderen sagde man at der var varmt i helvede. 5. General Dwight D. Eisenhower var øverstbefalende for de allierede styrker i Europa under 2. verdenskrig. 6. Vi rejser til Indien i slutningen af december og begyndelsen af januar. 7. Mange svenskere tror ikke på (to believe in) djævelen. 8. Jeg foretrækker (to prefer) påske frem for (to) pinse. 9. Hinduer og muslimer kan ikke enes i Indien. 10. Den britiske statsminister David Cameron er konservativ partileder. 11. Normannernes erobring af England fandt sted i Spelling and morphology Web activity 11. Practise morphological spelling rules in the exercises below and discuss them from a teacher s perspective. When and how will you teach the morphological spelling rules? Here are some nouns ending in -o. How should they be spelled in the plural? a. buffalo g. mosquito m. torpedo b. casino h. photo n. veto c. echo i. tomato o. video d. ghetto j. potato p. volcano e. hero k. radio q. zero f. inferno l. solo In the following, find the words ending in -ies and -eys and explain why in relation to the y problem On the sunniest Sunday of July, Dorothy s ponies were exercising in the field while her babies cried as turkeys gobbled and donkeys brayed. Families and other parties picnicked among the daisies. The annual Fair was in progress and would continue for two days, providing opportunities for farmers to view the latest machinery. Did you notice the k in picnicked whereas a related word picnic is without the k? The extra k is inserted after c in words such as panic(ked) and traffic(king) to show that /c/is to be pronounced as /k/ before the letters e, i and y where we would normally expect /s/ like the first c in circus. After reading about spelling Web activity 12. Identify, categorize, correct and explain problems regarding spelling. Examples originate in recent PEU reports. a. We had a lot in comment. b. A graped the fone and dialed the numper. c. The reason why I pig him my self. d. He was in title to use his gun. e. He had such a head egg. Chapter 14. spelling 7

8 f. They a running outside. g. The rich are getting richer, but the pure are getting more pure. Is that fair? h. He is happyer than he s mother. i. After a month training I became good eunuch. j. The birds were sinning in the trees and the sun was shinning. k. The questions are too difficould. l. I can speak french. Web activity 13. It s time for your final reflections: A. Reflections in relation to didactics 1. Sum up what is most important to know about spelling for an English teacher. a. Which principles are important in spelling in English and how? The phonic principle The etymological principle The ability to recognize words The necessity of a common standard b. Which developmental spelling problems do learners typically have in relation to the areas below? Give some examples. Audio-visual problems a. Homophones b. Silent letters c. Wrong pronunciation d. Spell checkers Analogy problems Semantic problems Capital letters Compound words Casual errors Grammatical problems relating to morphology What are the most important differences between American and British spelling? c. Describe the typical development of spelling? 2. Discuss how you would handle the progression of spelling in your English teaching, if possible compare with what it says in Fælles Mål for Engelsk. When would you start teaching spelling why? What is most important for the pupils to learn? What is easiest and what is most difficult why? What needs automatization already for young learners? 3. Think back at your own experience as a pupil: did you change your opinion about how to teach spelling? B. Reflections in relation to what you have learnt Which areas relating to spelling do you master now? In which areas do you need to improve? Chapter 14. spelling 8

9 Web activity Identify, categorize, correct and explain spelling problems in the passages from learner s texts below. How would you help them? How far have they come in their development? Which principles do they follow? NB: be careful not to generalize problems into the spelling category, e.g. the mistake waked is not a spelling problem but a problem due to overgeneralization of the regular past tense of verbs. 2. Sum up: how serious do you consider spelling problems and how can you help pupils become better at spelling in English? Text 14-A I don t no what went rong, but I fink your parents vows vowed abbot you becors the me by fink there cot bee drakes too the party you teak too. I am sixteen an in the start wen I begin too go too party s may parents wood laic me to bee at home at 10 pm boot wen you begin too brook the roles the don t trust you ant you can t not begin too com letter home becors they fink you also well breech the roles the next time. Text 14-B IIsdegad Paris Mondag 13 April 2003 Dear moor You can see my new address. I ve found a place to live in pries. We hap big house an three room in deer house an vet hap an big pool. I live met 3 people in house. All Dee people in Paris Is expensive am friendly people. I ve got job as a Microsoft I cam god money an me boss is god. I bay an new car ed is an BMW 50z it is fast car and branch cooler i bet 5000 $ to data car...i have an god grill is name is Susie, se hast one cat an 2 dogs, is love animal and is hat an job in ban k. I began in clap is at food boll. Text 14-C It s Morten here, as you know from the s Jan hat mailed to you, I live in Horsens, or it s in a little town called Torsted, that is a few kilometres out the city of Horsens. It s a one stage house, that I share with my littlebrother, Jacob, and of cause my mom and dad. I have a job in Bilka s fruit and vegetables department. I m very happy about my job, because I talk with other people all time, and its well paid I get Danish money per hour. There are some extra money after 6 P.M in the weekdays, Saturday after 3 P.M and Sunday there are extra all the day, but ones in the holydays my boss called me at 9 P.M, so he waked me, that day I was a little tied of my boss. Text 14-D I was sitting in a restrain, drinking my milkshake, and I got this wired felling, that someone was watching me, but when I turned around, there was nowbody. Later the same day i was on work, and I got the same felling, that someone is watching me, but I could not see anyone. When I got home I didn t think about it, I just spent some time whit my husband... On my way home, I got the same felling that someone was watching me, I yelled WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?...I heard that someone is coming closer, I got scared, because I was alone, what if he was planing on reaping me. Chapter 14. spelling 9

11 Solution The Sting in the Tale (solution for web activity 4) The pale knight sat on the throne and began to tell this tale. I didn t know that she would give me such pain when I first met her. She sent me a letter which I read at once. She begged me to write back and so I asked her to meet me. She rode through the night and we met at 8 when the dew was still on the grass and the faint sun was peeking over the hills. I couldn t believe what I saw. She was a beautiful sight. Her eyes were blue and her long hair was fair and straight. She looked chaste and flawless She gave me a long stare. I responded with a bow and wondered why she was here. Then she asked me to slay and bury the king, her husband. She could wait no longer. Her request made me weak. I am a poor, plain man, but my love for my dear queen was so great that I said I would do it. It was not an easy feat, heaven knows, but at last I got him alone and ran him through with my sword. I dug a deep hole in a place in the garden. Since then, I haven t had a day s peace. I can hardly bear it. My heart is breaking and my nerves are taut. You see, I read her mail because I fear for my fate. Last week, she wrote to an aunt to say that she will marry once more, but first she needs a boy to do some digging for her. Her new flower bed is very sweet, but she d prefer it if there were a pair. Quotes 1 Lord Cromer, When the English Tongue We Speak, 1902: html 2 Trenite, G. Nolst, The Chaos : 3 The words are taken from the following two lists of homophones: Hyppigt forvekslede og fejlstavede ord in Hanne Wacher & Kim Kjærgaard, Stifinderen, Andrico, 2009, p. 101 and Spelling mistakes and some false friends a checklist in Aase Brick-Hansen, Wendy A. Scott, Lars Skovhus Wendy, Blue Cat engelsk for tiende, Teacher s Book, 1999, pp Based on Mc Carthy, Michael & Felicity O Dell, English Vocabulary in Use, Cambridge University Press, Roger Mc Gouph, Streemin, The Kingfisher Book of Comic Verse, Kingfisher books ltd, Wacher, Hanne & Kim Kjærgaard, Stifinderen, Andrico, 2009, pp Butterfield, Jeremy, Damp Squid, OUP, 2008, p Chapter 14. spelling 11

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